Worcester, MA
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Isaiah Thomas
The Printer Who Saved the Record
Isaiah Thomas dismantled his press in the dark. It was April 1775, and Boston was a trap — British soldiers controlled the streets, patriot leaders had fled or been arrested, and a printer who publish...
Modern Voices
The Revolution in Ink
Researchers come to the American Antiquarian Society from all over the world to read the Revolution in its original form — not as textbooks retell it, but as people experienced it through print. We h...
